Happy New Year and greetings from Seal Beach! Soon we will be embarking on trip east but more about that later….now for some “catch up”.
As many of you know, mom moved to her new home in Fullerton in late October. She was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and this place better suits her needs. She is doing so well, she has made good friends and is looking better than ever!
Kelli, Dan and Kaia recently moved to a town north of Dallas, Texas. They are currently renting a home until their CA home sells; Kelli now has a Texas RN license, Kaia...

We are a “tad” behind documenting latest travels…. after we left Amarillo, Texas we headed to Roswell, New Mexico where we stayed at the cutest campground in town; Red Barn RV. The park is run by a wife and her husband and it is situated adjacent to their family farm. They converted part of the farm to an RV park, what a cute place and such fabulous service! Roswell, of course, is renowned as the site of an alleged 1947 UFO crash and it is popular with tourists because of its many alien-themed stores. During our two days there we visited...

Arrived in Seal a Beach around 1 pm. Met up with dad at the Leisure World Gate. What a mess that was. Every security guard wanted us to park the Moho in a different place while checking in. They sure have a poor system, but we go registered and got our spot by the library. Around 85 and sunny, had to run the air for awhile. No hookups or water, but Dish, AT&T, and Verizon worked good.

This is the trip that almost wasn't. On day 3 within 24 hours we had 2 trips to the animal ER for bite wounds (Bear) and visit from the paramedics and a short trip to the hospital ER (Scott). Bear's bite wounds are healing nicely and Scott received an A-OK from his ER visit.

We had Anya for one more overnight this week. We had to take MH to the tire place because Pete could not read pressure on our back tires and that could be an issue since we will be going into higher elevations and need to lower tires pressure on some occasions. After short trip and $100.00 problem is solved. We had a nice time at Huntington beach on Saturday and on Sunday morning we left Los Angeles area for the higher elevations of the National Sequoya Park.

Anya had a dance class in the morning but we forgot dancing shoes at her parent’s home, so early in the morning we drove to San Pedro to pickup her shoes and we let Otis, family dog out. He was so happy to see us. Then we hurry to dancing class, I learned that if we were looking at her practicing she was not paying any attention to the instructors so we reluctantly watched her on the CCTV. After that change of clothes and we were driving to Fort McArthur for the Easter egg hunt, courtesy of the Air Force. Kids had a blast, we never seen so...

We arrived to a much cooler California coast on Saturday. We are staying at Sea Breeze Famcamp at Seal Beach California. Driving thru Phoenix AZ and west was a chore and a workout at the wheel. Lots of wind and there was one stretch that the sand was blowing so hard that it was somewhat dark out there. In the air you could smell a soil, as the fine particles were blown in the wind. As we entered Las Angeles area we started to work our way thru the traffic to our campground. The sites are big, paved and with lots of grass and nicely...

We visited my dad and spent the night in the RV at Leisure World in the parking lot next to the library. It was quiet and we had plenty of room for the pop outs. We had a nice visit with Aunt Martha the next day and took my dad to breakfast at his old school yard that is now a restaurant. Next day we headed to San Diego. So far our new RV is doing well and rides like a dream.

Just a quick synopsis of some important events since our last travel blog……
We attended the 236th Marine Corps Ball with our son, Brandon. Brandon’s Ball was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. There were over 1,000 Marines from the School of Infantry (West) and with guests’ there 1,500 people in attendance! We stayed a few extra days in the area and visited my Aunt and Uncle, Charlene and Dennis Bim.
Kelli and Dan hosted Thanksgiving at their house and as always, they did a wonderful job with all the food. Kathy, Tom and Claire joined Dennis and I,...